03/08/10
Filed under:
General
Posted by:
Maria Vitale @ 7:36 am
Despite the Obama Administration’s claims, the Senate health care reform plan does, indeed, include public funding of abortion. National Right to Life’s Legislative Director, Douglas Johnson, has written an insightful article which sets the record straight:
The Senate health bill is a 2,407-page labyrinth strewn with the legislative equivalents of improvised explosive devices – disguised provisions that will result in federal pro-abortion mandates and federal subsidies for abortion. The so-called abortion limits that are in the Senate bill are all very narrow, riddled with loopholes, or booby-trapped to expire. Some of them were drafted more with the intent of misleading superficial analysts (which unfortunately includes some media “factcheckers”) than actually effectuating a pro-life policy.
When all of the pro-abortion provisions are considered in total, the Senate bill is the most pro-abortion single piece of legislation that has ever come to the House floor for a vote, since Roe v. Wade. Any House member who votes for the Senate health bill is casting a career-defining pro-abortion vote. A House member who votes for the Senate bill would forfeit a plausible claim to pro-life credentials. No House member who votes for the Senate bill will be regarded, in the future, as having a record against federal funding of abortion.
All of those statements are true regardless of how many assurances or denials are disseminated by President Obama or by Speaker Pelosi, both of whom have sought throughout their political careers to undermine limits on government funding of abortion. House members who vote for the Senate bill will be accountable to their constituents for what the Senate bill contains.
Please call your Congressional Representative and urge him or her to vote against the pro-abortion Senate health care reform plan. You can reach your Representative through the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121. For updates on abortion and health care reform, please visit the National Right to Life Legislative Action Center at
http://www.nrlactioncenter.com/ .
Comments Off